If you were close enough to Frankfurt, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart or Munich, you might have been able to get the Armed Forces Network on AM radio. However, in 1985, I tuned in while I was over there and they were using National Public Radio as their news service, which wouldn’t have helped you much.
At night, when I was there in the early 1970’s, I could sometimes hear German-language broadcasts on the Deutschlandsender (Radio Germany) out of the Soviet zone, which gave a rather interesting perspective on the news. I could also get English-language news broadcasts over Radio Luxembourg and was able to keep up on the fighting going on in Northern Ireland.
We lived about thirty klicks south of K-Town, but we were in the mountains east of Pirmasens so it was difficult to pick up any transmissions. We could sometimes pick up AFRN out of K-Town or an American station out of Pirmasens, but for the most part we could only get the local German station. They loved playing Elvis, Johnny Cash, John Denver, and the Beach Boys.